Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:33:18 10/02/02
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On October 02, 2002 at 19:33:16, stuart taylor wrote:
>On October 02, 2002 at 11:57:17, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 02, 2002 at 11:42:05, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>On October 02, 2002 at 08:43:01, robert flesher wrote:
>>>
>>>>You have only played 3 games and that is not enough to draw a conclusion on!
>>>>Look at the results on this forum you will see tiger is plenty strong and
>>>>STRONGER that this new ruffian. Try the normal setting of Tiger as Christophe
>>>>states it is the strongest. Better yet post some game in which you beat it! Then
>>>>we all will be please, However i wont! hold my breath. Cheers~
>>>
>>>If in the first 3 games Tiger lost to ruffian, and Tiger seemed not to even have
>>>claws, then I would NOT say play more. I would say that it is virtual evidence
>>>either that Tiger is not all that great, or that something else was wrong, in
>>>this case-I'd think the later.
>>>
>>>A strong machine should be seen to be "playing chess", unlike a strong human who
>>>might just be having a bad day.
>>>3 games lost, is 100% loss throught three games. And the first 3 games are
>>>statistically much more substantial than any other 3, even consecutive,
>>>somewhere later on. (because, why the very first three?).
>>>S.Taylor
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>>When you have no idea what you are talking about, it's better to shut up I
>>think.
>>
>>"The first 3 games are statistically much more substantial than any other 3":
>>maybe you should go back to school...
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>If you take at random any 3 consequtive games out of 100, and they are all wins
>for the same program, it says more than if you see for sure that this was only a
>red herring.
>That's a bit deeper than what you are thinking about!
>Also, if those 3 games seemed to be without claws (e.g. kept losing advantage),
>it might help the case (but for that you need to be a good judge).
>S.Taylor
I'm sorry it's still meaningless...
Christophe
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